Stiff Neck?

3:00-3:55 p.m

Got myself out of my funk and saddled up Crickett today, the weather was wonderful. All of our snow has melted and the flooding has resided (Not that I am affected much by either), my brother has gone off to his permanent duty station so I am no longer distracted by his x-box or the drug that is Oblivion. While it might not have been the warmest of days, it was still pretty nice once I headed out.

By out I mean, trying and failing to get the Mare to go into her pasture so that we could really work on some circles. It was far to late to go out on the trails and I did not want to be to far out of sight of the house just in case Crickett showed her devil side. So instead of going into the pasture, we did 15 foot circles in the drive way until she decided it would be ok to go down the driveway a bit.

After a few stop, stare and snort sessions, which I remedied by getting her to flex to each side. That did the trick most of the time, until we got to the new scary neighbor who was building fences. That took a minute or two to work out of, and kind of emabrassing for me. But all was ok. Crickett did pretty good considering that she has not been ridden for a few weeks and quite fresh from good hay.

I got home just in time to cool her off and take care of her mane and tail before I had to rush inside and resue the beef barly soup that I had been making (and convenintly forgetting about) for the last three hours.